Latest Leopard Build Screenshots?

[amateurmacfreak]

And.. there's profanity in the Mac OS X Dictionary?

Pretty much all dictionaries have profanity, as I think they should. They're words too.
And... I wonder how much that would block.

(when I was little, if I heard a word I thought was "bad" I would look it up in the dictionary and see if it said vulgar next to it )

 

[amateurmacfreak]

anyone wonder if google will google is planning to eat apple?

I love Google as much as I love Apple. A very, very close relationship between them wouldn't be bad at all in my mind.

 

[kyleaa]

I almost feel like you could take screenshots of tiger and people here would believe that they are from Leopard, since a lot of people are asking for features that already exist. Image previews can be turned on in view options, granted it's a horrible interface and very unintuitive, but it is possible. Also, the profanity filter already exists in parental controls, and as someone already said, bookmark syncing over .mac already exists.

 

[IEatApples]

They look real... Oh, and Google won't buy Apple!

 

[tribulation]

iCal shortcomings?

If you don't like iCal and it doesn't fit your needs, try something like Entourage. Maybe coming from your PC background it'll feel more at home? Part of the MS office suite. Yes I know MS ewww. But it's there

 

[Some_Big_Spoon]

It think what many of us feel (most of us?) is that iCal's a little useless without being integrated into Mail. Having to shuttle back and forth is inefficient. The little "shortcuts" (hacks) that Apple seems to be using make it even more annoying in my opinion. They don't want to go head to head with entourage, I get it, but until you do, iCal gets deleted from my machine.

If you don't like iCal and it doesn't fit your needs, try something like Entourage. Maybe coming from your PC background it'll feel more at home? Part of the MS office suite. Yes I know MS ewww. But it's there

 

[cgc]

I like that I see only one GUI in the various apps in the screenshots. One feature I'd love to see is more efficient/complete core control and improved Rosetta and Bootcamp performance.

 

[wyatt23]

sexy.

 

[riversky]

What if.....

What if Google buy Apple someday, not really for the hardware but for the operating system and the iTunes store for content. It would be able to perhaps take Microsoft down to a 50/50 share.....

I don't think it is out of the question.....

 

[monke]

What if Google buy Apple someday, not really for the hardware but for the operating system and the iTunes store for content. It would be able to perhaps take Microsoft down to a 50/50 share.....

I don't think it is out of the question.....

Nice try but Gapple? Dont think so.

 

[Swarmlord]

If they are fake, someone went through a lot of trouble to make some realistic images.

 

[Chef Medeski]

It think what many of us feel (most of us?) is that iCal's a little useless without being integrated into Mail. Having to shuttle back and forth is inefficient. The little "shortcuts" (hacks) that Apple seems to be using make it even more annoying in my opinion. They don't want to go head to head with entourage, I get it, but until you do, iCal gets deleted from my machine.

I disagree. I like how its seperate. What could you possibly need to sync between Mail and iCal anyways..... Event invties... ohh wait that works. I believe its better to have 3 seperate programs instead of entourage... that way you can be more efficient with your use. Like for instance, when I use my laptop in class I close Mail... cause I don't have Internet, but I still need iCal. So its perfect. I mean the only downside is that you have to click to open two apps. I don't see anything else. WHat can you integrate between the two other than contacts which is its own program.

I think its perfect how it is. I would love to see new features, new features are always great; I just can't think of any. Ohh I know one. Making things in iCal have links to documents so if a To-Do is to like finish a project.. u can link to the files so its all there, due date, importance, notes, location of files. And maybe they could work on the calendars (categories). Smart calendars would be nice. And more flexibility with calendars. I don't really see any other problems. I'm sure there are I'm just not that good at looking.

 

[Mechcozmo]

Apple killed the beauty of this method with 10.4.4, when JPEG icons started to be rendered as ugly pixellated images with black borders. As far as I can tell this problem has not been addressed. So, I'm still running 10.4.3. If this page-curl materialises, and I have to use it, it will piss me off no end. It is completely pointless.

My JPEGs all look fine. No black border, crystal-clear. Perhaps you are using Graphic Converter? That generates some ugly previews but is still by far the best image conversion app I've seen.

iCal has been a disaster for 4 OS X releases now. It is, without a doubt, Apple's worse application. It's missing functionality, basic functionality, that has been in every calendaring program since 1992.

iCal is a sad example of Apple going to far to the extreme of minimization.

All I really wanted in the last 2 OS updates was a decent iCal. It's the only thing on the Mac that continually hurts my productivity.

I've learned that iCal is just the price of being a Mac guy, and I don't hope for greatness. Heck, I don't even hope for mediocrity. iCal is always going to be slow, inconsistent UI and barely usable.

iCal... ~sigh~. If only, if only. I need to send invitations to Outlook users-- but iCal refuses to do so. iCal is slow, even worse than Entourage. The interface is extremely un-Apple in that it takes up the entire screen to use effectively. Integration with Address Book and Mail is nice, though.

If you don't like iCal and it doesn't fit your needs, try something like Entourage. Maybe coming from your PC background it'll feel more at home? Part of the MS office suite. Yes I know MS ewww. But it's there

Entourage doesn't integrate with OS X well enough for me. Address Book and Mail both work great, plus are much faster. And I don't need to use Word, PowerPoint, etc. that often. Excel is something I do a fair bit of work in... but rarely. Entourage also has bad errors every once in a while, loosing files and stuff.

 

[SeaFox]

I find it odd that they show two different ways of warning for phishing: the red bar and the sheet.

One design mistake: The sheet that comes out to say the website is a fraud covers up the URL bar, it should leave it visible in case there's a false positive and you want to check for yourself you didn't get redirected to the wrong site.

 

[tribulation]

UI inconsistencies are a total problem

I definitely agree about the UI inconsistencies throughout Mac OS X. It's getting pretty ridiculous actually. With all the apps looking different, it is SO completely un-mac-like. I understand the need to differentiate the consumer vs pro apps (ical vs final cut pro), but none of the consumer apps match each other, and then the Finder contradicts them all.

The problem just seems to be getting worse. Is it really that hard for Apple to just follow their own HIG?

 

[thegreatluke]

I love the anti-phising stuff. I also hope they include built in anti-virus and anti-spyware. I know there isn't much of either for the Mac but it would be great for marketing and the day when something bad does appear.

Huh?

What would it scan for?

 

[OdduWon]

sorry if it's already been posted but did you all see what the text preview says
"This is a live preview. Yay leopard! It's the best thing ever. It's better that you! Thats the apple way!" wow!

also is there a scrool feature where you can hold down the scroll wheel and speed through windows like in windows 2000? i have a loud scrool wheel and am too lazy to move to the scrool bar

 

[monke]

sorry if it's already been posted but did you all see what the text preview says
"This is a live preview. Yay leopard! It's the best thing ever. It's better that you! Thats the apple way!" wow!

Nice! That is awesome Apple, way to go. Another one of those features that make computing a whole lot easier and way more fun.

 

[joeboy_45101]

I just want iCal to have a quick add feature. Like what 30boxes or Google Calender can do.

 

[bobber205]

Preview in Icon Mode is helpful.

While that's true, why hasn't this been done long ago? I hate to say this but XP has always? had that?

 

[relimw]

Though you can't tell much from a single screenshot, it looks like the iCal update is more a cosmetic update rather than a feature update. The only new feature I can see in that screenshot is something about new event notifications, but that's hardly what people have been clamoring for.

Actually, if they would fix the bugs in iCal I'd be happy
I would expect tighter intregration for the new iCal server, and other backend stuffs, maybe some professionalizing of the interface.

 

[relimw]

And.. there's profanity in the Mac OS X Dictionary?

I'd never looked but apparently so..

f*** off [usu. in imperative ] (of a person) go away.

 

[relimw]

Google's greatest assests are their data-collection/data-mining libraries. The rest of it is crap (scientific term!).

Actually, their stock isn't too bad... $426.06/share Apple was only at $79/share

 

[OdduWon]

Actually, if they would fix the bugs in iCal I'd be happy
I would expect tighter intregration for the new iCal server, and other backend stuffs, maybe some professionalizing of the interface.

you could import iphoto calenders.....

 

[BrianMojo]

I definitely agree about the UI inconsistencies throughout Mac OS X. It's getting pretty ridiculous actually. With all the apps looking different, it is SO completely un-mac-like. I understand the need to differentiate the consumer vs pro apps (ical vs final cut pro), but none of the consumer apps match each other, and then the Finder contradicts them all.

Is it just me, or does it seem like they're trying to unify them with this new release? DVD Player, iTunes, iCal -- they all have the same look now and surely the brushed metal of Safari and the Finder will soon disappear. Seems to me this is something that Apple wants done as well!

Or better still, bring back a Aqua-skinned version of the visual Finder of OS 9: The visual navigation through nested folders is what got me hooked on the Mac!

Uh, can't you do this now? Just turn on the option for opening folders in new windows and click on the button in the upper right a few times and voila! Just like old.